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- This invention relates generally to a trip strip that provides a turbulated air flow within cooling channels in a blade of a gas turbine engine and, more particularly, to a trip strip that provides a turbulated air flow within cooling channels in a blade of gas turbine engine, where the trip strip has a saw tooth configuration.
- a gas turbine engine is one known machine that provides efficient power, and often has application for an electric generator in a power plant, or engines in an aircraft or a ship.
- a typically gas turbine engine includes a compressor section, a combustion section and a turbine section.
- the compressor section provides a compressed air flow to the combustion section where the air is mixed with a fuel gas, such as propane.
- the combustion section includes a plurality of circumferentially disposed combustors each including an injector that injects the fuel gas into the combustor to be mixed with the air and an igniter that ignites the fuel/air mixture using an electrical discharge to generate a working gas typically having a temperature greater than 1300° C.
- the working gas expands through the turbine section and is directed across rows of blades therein by associated vanes. As the working gas passes through the turbine section, it causes the blades to rotate, which in turn causes a shaft to rotate, thereby providing mechanical work
- the temperature of the working gas is tightly controlled so that it does not exceed some predetermined temperature for a particular turbine engine design because to high of a temperature can damage various parts and components in the turbine section of the engine.
- a portion of the compressed air flow is also used to provide cooling for certain components in the turbine section, typically the vanes, blades and ring segments.
- the more cooling and/or the more efficient cooling that can be provided to these components allows the components to be maintained at a lower temperature, and thus the higher the temperature of the working gas can be. For example, by reducing the temperature of the compressed gas, less compressed gas is required to maintain the part at the desired temperature, resulting in a higher working gas temperature and a greater power and efficiency from the engine. Further, by using less cooling air at one location in the turbine section, more cooling air can be used at another location in the turbine section.
- 80% of the compressed air flow is mixed with the fuel to provide the working gas and 20% of the compressed air flow is used to cool the turbine section parts. If less of that cooling air is used at one particular location as a result of the cooling air being lower in temperature, then more cooling air can be used at other areas in the turbine section for increased cooling.
- This disclosure describes a trip strip having a saw-tooth configuration that has application for cooling flow channels in a blade of a gas turbine engine.
- the saw-tooth configuration is defined by trip strip sections positioned end-to-end, where a leading edge of a trip strip section has a lower height than a trailing end of the trip strip section, and where the next trip strip section having the lower height leading edge disrupts the vortex created by the preceding trip strip section so that its size is reduced.
- FIG. 1 is a cut-away, isometric view of a gas turbine engine
- FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of one blade separated from the row of the blades in the gas turbine engine and showing air cooling flow channels therein;
- FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view along line 3 - 3 of the blade shown in FIG. 2 ;
- FIG. 4 is a cooling circuit showing the cooling fluid flow path in the blade shown in FIG. 2 ;
- FIG. 5 is an illustration showing a number of known trip strips within the flow channels in the blade shown in FIGS. 2 and 3 ;
- FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view of one of the trip strips shown in FIG. 5 ;
- FIG. 7 is an illustration of a saw-tooth trip strip
- FIG. 8 is an illustration of a saw-tooth trip strip where the trip strip sections have a wedge-shape
- FIG. 9 is a top view or a side view of the trip strip shown in FIG. 8 .
- FIG. 1 is a cut-away, isometric view of a gas turbine engine 10 including a compressor section 12 , a combustion section 14 and a turbine section 16 all enclosed within an outer housing 30 , where operation of the engine 10 causes a central shaft or rotor 18 to rotate, thus creating mechanical work.
- the engine 10 is illustrated and described by way of a non-limiting example to discuss the invention referred to below. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that other gas turbine engine designs will also benefit from the invention.
- Rotation of the rotor 18 draws air into the compressor section 12 where it is directed by vanes 22 and compressed by rotating blades 20 to be delivered to the combustion section 14 where the compressed air is mixed with an ignition fuel gas, such as propane, and where the fuel/air mixture is ignited to create a hot working gas.
- an ignition fuel gas such as propane
- the combustion section 14 includes a number of circumferentially disposed combustion chambers 26 each receiving the fuel gas on a line 24 that is sprayed into the chamber 26 by an injector (not shown) and mixed with the compressed air to be combusted to create the working gas, which is directed by a nozzle 28 into the turbine section 16 .
- the working gas is directed by circumferentially disposed stationary vanes (not shown) in the turbine section 16 to flow across circumferentially disposed rotatable turbine blades 34 , which causes the turbine blades 34 to rotate, thus rotating the rotor 18
- the working gas passes through the turbine section 16 it is output from the engine 10 as an exhaust gas through an output nozzle 36 .
- each group of the circumferentially disposed stationary vanes defines a row of the vanes and each group of the circumferentially disposed blades 34 defines a row 38 of the blades 34 .
- the turbine section 16 includes four rows 38 of the rotating blades 34 and four rows of the stationary vanes in an alternating sequence. In other gas turbine engine designs, the turbine section 16 may include more or less rows of the turbine blades 34 It is noted that the most forward row of the turbine blades 34 , referred to as the row 1 blades, and the vanes, referred to as the row 1 vanes, receive the highest temperature of the working gas, where the temperature of the working gas decreases as it flows through the turbine section 16 .
- FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of an airfoil or blade 40 that is intended to represent a row 2 blade, but can be a general representation of any of the blades 34 in the rows in the gas turbine engine 10 , where the blade 40 includes cooling fluid flow channels discussed in detail below.
- FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the blade 40 along line 3 - 3 in FIG. 2 .
- the blade 40 includes an attachment portion 42 that is configured to allow the blade 40 to be securely mounted to the rotor 18 in a manner well understood by those skilled in the art.
- a blade platform 44 is provided at a distal end of the attachment portion 42 and defines the beginning of a tapered airfoil portion 46 of the blade 40 .
- the airfoil portion 46 includes an outer housing 48 and a number of internal ribs 50 , 52 , 54 , 56 and 58 that define a serpentine flow channel 60 including a channel portion 62 between the outer housing 48 and the rib 50 , a channel portion 64 between the ribs 50 and 52 and a channel portion 66 between the ribs 52 and 54 .
- the air then flows back down the blade 40 through the channel portion 64 into a chamber 72 in the attachment portion 42 that has an opening covered by a cover plate 74 .
- the air then flows back up the blade 40 through the channel portion 66 and through an orifice 76 in the end portion 78 of the blade 40
- the rib 54 includes a series of orifices 82 that allow the air to flow into a channel 84 between the ribs 54 and 56
- the rib 56 includes a series of orifices 86 that allow the air to flow into a channel 88 between the ribs 56 and 58
- the rib 58 includes a series of orifices 92 that allow the air to flow into a channel 94 between the rib 58 and the outer housing 48 .
- a series of orifices 96 in the outer housing 48 allows the air to flow out of the blade 40 .
- the orifices 82 , 86 and 92 in the ribs 54 , 56 and 58 are staggered relative to each other so that the air does not flow directly from one channel across the next channel into the following channel. This causes the air flowing through one of the orifices to strike a section of the rib in the next channel also creating turbulence that increases the cooling effect. Particularly, this airflow effect creates vortexes inside of the channels 84 , 88 and 94 that also provide turbulence for effective cooling.
- FIG. 4 is a graphical representation of a cooling circuit 110 showing the air flow through the airfoil portion 46 of the blade 40 .
- line 112 represents flow through the channel portion 62
- line 114 represents flow through the channel portion 64
- line 116 represents flow through the channel portion 66
- lines 118 represent flow through the orifices 82 , 86 , 92 and 96 .
- a trip strip for this purpose is a metal strip formed to an inside surface of the outer housing 48 of the blade 40 in a transverse direction to the flow of the cooling air.
- the trip strips 100 are shown as skewed trip strips in that they are angled slightly relative to the direction of the flow of the cooling air
- the trip strips 100 can be normal to the flow direction of the air. Skewed trip strips are sometimes employed over normal trip strips so as to allow the trip strip to be longer, which provides more turbulent airflow.
- FIG. 5 is an illustration of a portion of the blade 40 showing a portion of the channel portion 62 .
- This illustration shows three known skewed trip strips 120 each including a leading edge 122 and a trailing edge 124 .
- FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view of one of the trip strips 120 .
- the trip strip 120 trips the thermal boundary layer of the cooling air and causes it to generate an air vortex 126 along the length of the trip strip 120 from the leading edge 122 to the trailing edge 124 .
- the air flow over and around the trip strip 120 is represented by arrows in FIG. 6 .
- the configuration and orientation of the trip strips 120 causes the helical formation of the air vortex 126 to increase in size from the leading edge 122 to the trailing edge 124 , i.e., increase in diameter.
- the air becomes less turbulent, which reduces its effectiveness for cooling.
- the boundary layer becomes progressively more disturbed or thickened, and consequently the tripping effect of the boundary layer becomes progressively less effective.
- the net result of this boundary layer growth is a significantly reduced heat transfer augmentation.
- the vortex 126 is already present on the trip strip 120 , where the combination of the airflow in those directions increases the size of the vortex 126 , which reduces the ability of the trip strip 120 to trip the airflow.
- FIG. 7 is an illustration of a portion of the blade 40 showing a portion of the channel portion 62 similar to the illustration shown in FIG. 5 where the cooling flow is in an upward direction.
- the trip strip 120 is replaced with a trip strip 130 including a plurality of trip strip sections, here three sections 132 , 134 and 136 , aligned end-to-end, where the trip strip 130 has a general saw-tooth configuration.
- the trip strips 130 are shown in FIG. 3 , where the trip strip sections conform to the shape of the outer housing 48 .
- Each of the trip strip sections 132 , 134 and 136 has a leading edge 138 and a trailing edge 140 , where the leading edge 138 has a lower height than the trailing edge 140 , which gives the trip strip 130 the saw-tooth shape.
- a vortex 142 created by the air flowing over the trip strip sections 132 , 134 and 136 is broken up at the trailing edge 140 of the particular trip strip section.
- the transition between trip strip sections breaks the vortices so that the airflow across the trip strip 130 at this transition creates a new vortex that provides the increased thermal boundary tripping to provide the higher cooling performance.
- the trip strip 130 includes three of the trip strip sections 132 , 134 and 136 .
- a fewer number or more of the trip strip sections can be provided within the scope of the invention as long as the number of the trip strip sections is more than one.
- the height of the leading edge 158 and the trailing edge 160 of the trip strip sections 132 , 134 and 136 , the skew angle of the trip strip 130 , the distance between the trip strips 130 , the width of the trip strip sections 132 , 134 and 136 , etc. are all design specific for a particular blade design.
- the height of the leading edge 158 of a particular trip strip section may be the same height as the leading edge 122 of the trip strip 120 .
- the leading and trailing edges of the trip strip sections 132 , 134 and 136 may be the same or different heights.
- FIG. 8 is an illustration of a portion of the blade 40 showing a portion of the channel portion 64 which is similar to the illustration shown in FIG. 7 .
- a trip strip 150 is provided including three trip strip sections 152 , 154 and 156 similar to the trip strip sections 132 , 134 and 136 , but where the trip strip sections 152 , 154 and 156 have a wedge-shape where the width of a leading edge 158 of the trip strip sections 152 , 154 and 156 is narrower than a trailing edge 160 of the particular trip strip section 152 , 154 or 156 .
- This configuration of the trip strip sections creates a much smaller geometry at the leading edges of each saw-tooth section or the junction of each tooth.
- the “wedge” shape of the sections 152 , 154 and 156 is more specifically defined as a “half wedge” shape where only one transverse edge of the section is angled. More particularly, the front transverse edge of the sections 152 , 154 and 156 that receives the airflow first is flat (without transitions between sections) along the length of the entire trip strip 150 , where the opposite edge of the sections 152 , 154 and 156 is angled so as to provide a clean surface for the incoming flow. This is further illustrated by FIG. 9 which depicts both a front view and a top view of the trip strip 150 .
- FIG. 9 depicts both a front view and a top view of the trip strip 150 .
- FIG. 9 is a general representation showing the transitions between the sections 152 , 154 and 156 , without specific dimensions for the rise of each section 152 , 154 or 156 or a difference in the width of each section 152 , 154 or 156 between the leading edge 158 of the section and the trailing edge 160 of the section.
- the cooling airflow that is tripped at the leading edge 158 of the first trip strip section 152 creates a vortex 162 that rolls along the length of the trip strip section 152 .
- this newly formed vortex 162 will be pushed away from the leading edge 158 of the trip strip section 152 .
- a second new boundary layer tripping effect is generated at the leading edge 158 of the next trip strip section 154 , which eliminates the interaction of the vortices between the old vortex and the newly formed vortex by the incoming cooling flow along the turbulent promoter, thus creating a much more effective way of tripping the boundary layer and inducing a much higher heat transfer augmentation.
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